BIOGRAPHY

J.M. CHAPIN - OF BATAVIA, NY

J. M. Chapin, wholesale and retail lumber dealer at 22 Evans Street, took charge of the business in 1888. He has a coal trestle with a capacity of 1,000 tons, the only one in town. He has the best of facilities for furnishing any kind of lumber, giving his attention to all kinds of manufactured work for houses complete. The yards are under the management of C. N. Dwight, who has been connected with the business since 1879. The sales for 1889 were over 2,000,000 feet in this vicinity, and are constantly increasing. Mr. Chapin also has two large saw-mills at Three Rivers, Ont., and owns timber lands in Michigan and Pennsylvania.

FROM: Gazetteer and Biographical Record, of Genesee County, New York, Edited by: F. W. Beers, J.W. Vose & Co., Publishers, Syracuse, NY 1890